After reading the letter from the thief, King Zhu Gongzi of Zhou opened his eyes wide in surprise: "This is the thief who is also looking for Li Yan?"

Li Hao didn't say anything, just nodded.

Now, even Zhu Gongxian felt that Li Yan was unusual. He pondered for a moment, then shouted: "Come, come!"

The guards of the prince's mansion came in: "Prince, what are your instructions?"

"The whole city is looking for a man named Li Yan. If you find any, be sure to invite me to come over and go quickly!"

Zhu Yuanzhang adopted a feudal system for his sons. Unlike the Qing Dynasty, he kept the royal family in the capital. Zhu Yuanzhang had a total of twenty-six sons, and he enfeoffed these sons to all parts of the country to guard the country for him.

Zhu Yuanzhang probably thought that his descendants would divide the vassals into various places. Even if the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to do so, the vassal kings from all over the country could take the opportunity to rise up. Just like Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, revived the Ming Dynasty. In other words, even if the centralized power declined and the vassal states were separatist, the Ming Dynasty would be in the hands of his descendants after all.

This idea seems good, and Zhu Yuanzhang also came up with a good idea to prevent the separatist vassal states from vassal states.

Zhu Yuanzhang's royal family feudal system was different from the Han and Jin Dynasties and the Tang and Song Dynasties. During the Han and Jin Dynasties, the emperor's royal family had basically existed in the form of a feudal state. All royal family and vassal kings basically split the land and became a country in the country. Although the country was nominally unified, the royal family and vassal kings actually became independent small kingdoms. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, although the royal family and vassal kings were guarding one side, they could also manage the political affairs of one side, and the state had a stronger control over the vassal kings.

There has been great progress compared with the Han and Jin Dynasties. During the Ming Dynasty, during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, he studied the unique system of royal family and vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty after referring to the cases of royal family and vassal kings in previous dynasties. The system of feudal vassal in the Ming Dynasty did make progress in the system, and its characteristics were "dividing feudal without tinning the soil, placing titles without facing the people, eating and paying for the sake of the people but not governing affairs, and not being able to participate in the cause of the four people."

To put it bluntly, the royal vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty did not need to do anything except to eat money from the court with money and money to die.

Being the prince of the Ming Dynasty was the most exciting thing. However, what Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect was that after more than two hundred years, his descendants had multiplied millions of people by the end of the Ming Dynasty. So many people were living a life of life and waiting to rely on the court to support him, which shows how huge the court's expenses were. This is also one of the directions of Zhu Cixuan's reform in the future.

After more than two hundred years of accumulation, the generation of King Zhu Gongye of Zhou, he had saved a lot of his family property. Zhu Gongye was a smart man and knew the truth that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold. Once Kaifeng City could not be preserved, King Zhou would become the target of the bandits' anger.

So he donated most of his property to defend the city wall. In this way, Kaifeng City was as solid as a rock.

Although the local vassal kings, such as the Zhou king Zhu Gongye, did not have any real military and political power, they played an important role in the local area. Naturally, everyone did not dare to neglect the orders of the prince. The whole city began to look for a juren named Li Yan, and searched the whole city.

Soon, Mr. Li Yan and Mr. Li were not found, but found a man named Li Xin in the Kaifeng Prefecture Prison. This Li Xin was actually a death row prisoner.

Li Hao and others were not idle either. They checked the files from the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture Wu Shishang, but did not find that the juren named Li Yan in the year of Dingmao of Tianqi. Instead, they found a juren named Li Xin. However, this person had been dismissed from his fame.

Removing fame and fortune is a serious crime, which means that you no longer enjoy the various privileges granted to you by the Ming Dynasty. The reason for removing fame and fortune is actually a tyrant.

There is a clear record in the file. In the 12th year of Chongzhen, Li Xin's pseudonym was Li Yan, and assisted Rope Skill Hong Niangzi and Jigongshan in Xinyang to rebel. He killed 18 officials in Luoshan County, burned the government, broke the prison and released the prison, and committed a great crime...

Later, Li Yan was arrested by Yu Xinyang and taken to Kaifeng Prefecture for trial.

In other words, at this time, Li Yan was already a death row prisoner. What was waiting for him was a serious crime of treason. He was only waiting for Kaifeng Prefecture to report to the capital, and Emperor Chongzhen criticized Qiu Hou and asked for the death of the queen.

Hong Niangzi is an armed force of a bandit in Henan. Rope skills are a kind of ancient Chinese acrobatics. Commonly known as rope skills. Chinese rope skills were introduced from the Western Regions. The relics of the Indian people were not only the ancestor of magic, but also the ancestor of rope skills.

Since childhood, Hong Niangzi has no name and no surname. She has followed artists to wander on the streets and makes a living by performing her skills. Because of her beauty, she likes to wear red clothes. She is eager to be righteous, smart and brave, and has developed a good martial arts. She is called Hong Niangzi by the world.

The headmaster of the later opera troupe colluded with the government to persecute the troupe to death, and the opera troupe was on the verge of disbanding. The red lady was furious and pulled up the team to rebel. At that time, for some reason, he and Li Xin were in a good position.

It was Li Xin who assisted Hong Niangzi and rebelled in Jigongshan, Xinyang. Li Xin's pseudonym Li Yan and Luoshan County cooperated with the outside world to help Hong Niangzi break into Luoshan County. Hong Niangzi went to the city to kill 18 people including Luoshan County Magistrate and local landlords and bullies, burned down the government, broke the prison and released prisoners, opened the granary, and helped the hungry people. He was deeply supported by the poor.

Later, the Ming army officers and soldiers surrounded and suppressed them, and Hong Niangzi led his troops to escape. Because the traitor betrayed, Li Xin, who was named Li Yan at that time, was implicated in Xinyang and imprisoned.

Because Li Xin was offended too much, he was a dignified juren. Xinyang officials did not dare to be proficient and took Li Xin to Kaifeng Prefecture. Kaifeng Prefecture reported to the capital and handed over to Emperor Chongzhen for ruling.

Such prisoners who colluded with bandits to rebel and killed court officials. With Chongzhen's personality, 99% of them were executed by lingchi. Just as the rebel Li Zicheng entered Henan, Li Xin was always imprisoned in the Kaifeng Prefecture prison.

Li Zicheng thought that only when he learned about the team of Hongniangzi, he knew Li Yan's name. Therefore, he asked Li Hao to bring letters to the city, and to win over Li Yan's character, he was probably to get the team of Hongniangzi, the rebellious army.

After all, the famous name of the Rope Skills is well-known in Henan. If you can win over such a team, it will be like strengthening your own team.

However, judging from Li Zicheng's letters, Li Zicheng didn't seem to know that Li Yan's real name was actually Li Xin. Perhaps he also learned from the information of Hong Niangzi.

Li Xin was a juren from the Ming Dynasty. From the story of Fan Jin passing the Juren, we can see how much privilege the Juren had in the Ming Dynasty. For the sake of a hero, he even wanted to be fame and fame. He would rather bear the reputation of a thief and rebel with him. Such a person was exactly what Li Zicheng needed to win over.

Li Zicheng had many soldiers and few literate talents. Because he killed the landlords and gentry and the upper-class people of local officials. Li Yan's joining could serve as his military advisor, and the other was to win over the team of Hongniang, so why not do it?
Chapter completed!